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Summer 2007
September 19, 2007
- I am happy to announce that my 23' Jones Brothers will
now be departing from Taylor's Landing on Little Creek near the
Norfolk/ VA Beach border. This new location will make for
quick access to the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel. The 19'
Pathfinder will remain on the Middle Peninsula. As far as
current fishing conditions, this cool shot of air is dropping
the water temperatures which will make the fish more active as
they bulk up for fall. The comfortable climate and good
fishing that we have this time of year makes for a great day on
the water!
      
September 9, 2007
- I made the trip up to Paxfest in Solomons, MD yesterday.
It was great to wet a line and shoot the breeze with the crew.
Over the last week we've had some fun backcountry fishing on the
Middle Peninsula and light line fishing at the HRBT.
      
August 30, 2007
- It sure was a hot August - so much so that I decided to
chop off my mop head of hair and go for the cue ball look!
Between the heat and a week long class to upgrade my captain's
license, I haven't been on the water too much over the last few
weeks. That will change shortly though with the best
fishing of the year just around the corner. Rockfish,
puppy drum, and speckled trout should put on quite a show in the
shallows of the Middle Peninsula from now until mid-November.
The lights of the HRBT will have stripers lined up by the
hundred at night. As the fish school up in the open water,
we will find acres of blitzing stripers around the CBBT.
The best shot at that trophy sized striped bass will be from
Thanksgiving to late January. Book early so you don't miss
out on the fabulous fall and winter fishery!
      
August 8, 2007
- Yesterday was my first charter since I returned from
Costa Rica. We ran offshore in search of cobia and were
rewarded with a 46" fish on a 15# class baitcasting outfit.
Another cobia refused to be duped into eating a fly, but readily
inhaled our squid teaser rig. Black tip and sharpnose
sharks kept things interesting. On our way in we stopped
by the CBBT to try our hand at black drum. We found a
school of 40-60 pound fish but none were interested in our
offerings.
       
July
27, 2007
- I will be out of the country until August 4th.
Please leave me an e-mail or phone message if you need to get in
touch and I will contact you on my return. In the mean
time, I'll leave you with a few more pictures of some shallow
water fish from this week. Highlights were catching very
healthy stripers to 32", pretty specks to 22" and watching a 36"
striper try to destroy a 9" white perch that a client was
winding in!
      
July
25, 2007
- The weather this past week has been fantastic with low
humidity and temperatures. The cooler weather has really
turned on the fishing with some awesome shallow water action on
the Middle Peninsula. With good high tides in the mornings
all the species are on the feed - stripers, specks, pups,
croaker and flounder. We had a couple real nice fish break
us off and saw about a 32" striper follow a hooked fish up to
the boat... there are some quality fish to be had! My wife
and I are headed down to Costa Rica on Sunday for a few days to
celebrate our anniversary. I hope to slip out and wet a
line while we are there.
      
July
15, 2007
- In the dog days of summer it is more important than ever
to fish during low light hours of the day, not only to avoid the
heat but to take advantage of the best fishing. We've had
some stellar bites at dawn and dusk but the fish tend to shut
down under the bright sun. More specks and puppy drum
continue to move into the Middle Peninsula. September and
early October should be the best fishing for them along with
great shallow water striper fishing. The topwater striper
bite continues to be good, especially around Fort Wool in
Hampton. We had a fun morning in the Dragon Run catching
largemouth on the fly with bass bugs. It's hard to beat
the visual display of a bass blowing up on a popper placed next
to a log in a foot of water!
      
July
3, 2007
- This morning I was able to take a break from guiding and
do a little fishing of my own with my father. We hit the
shallows of the Middle Peninsula and landed about 40 fish in 3
feet of water. There was a great mixed bag of stripers,
specks, croaker and flounder. It was a blast having nice
fish strip line off the reel as they streaked across the flat!
      
June
25, 2007
- My friend Jonathan Winks and I made the run offshore
near the Chesapeake Light Tower, yesterday. Jonathan
caught his first fly rod cobia on a 9wt. The 41" fish hit
an olive and white hollow fly. Jonathan is on a roll of
late with his first tarpon (during our trip to FL) and cobia in
only a month. As a side note, I have added an article on
targeting flounder on the fly to the
Articles and Lessons
section of the website.
     
June
24, 2007
- Summer has greeted us with some good shallow water
fishing on the Middle Peninsula. We've been catching
stripers to 30", specks to 21", croaker to 18" and undersized
flounder on fly and light tackle. During the next couple
weeks, we should see some excellent fishing. The Hampton
Roads Bridge Tunnel is still producing lots of stripers on
topwater lures in the evening and earlier morning. Puppy
drum and bluefish are hanging out in the area, as well.
There are largemouth bass, bream and perch to be had for those
interested in an adventure to the Dragon Run.
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